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This chapter explores the way place influences the emotional and communicative patterns of conflict that arise in negotiating literacy learning and belonging in three culturally and linguistically diverse primary schools in Western Sydney, Australia. Studying language and place opens up communication and enables teachers, students and communities to share their experiences and biographies. Young people are positioned as researchers of, and experts in, the ways that they use their language and literacies to navigate local and global contexts. Positioning young people as active agents in their own learning not only facilitates communication but also places local diversity and global connectedness together in support of learning for all.
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D’warte, J. (2019). Explorations of Place, Communication and Conflict: Navigating Local and Global Contexts in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms. In: Collins, P., Igreja, V., Danaher, P. (eds) The Nexus among Place, Conflict and Communication in a Globalising World. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5925-5_4
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